The Detroit Red Wings have proven over the past couple years to be a consistantly good team. Since 1995, the Red Wings have made it to the Stanley Cup Finals four times. Of those four times, the Wings won the Cup three times. From 1995 to 1998, the Wings won the Stanley Cup twice, gotten into the Finals three times, and the other time, lost to the eventual Stanley Cup Champions in the Western Conference Finals. The Red Wings have a long tradition in the NHL. The Wings are one of the original six teams which also includes the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, Quebec Nordiques, and New York Rangers. The tradition of the Wings also goes back a ways. When playoff time comes around, Wing fans don their Red and White and Octipi (plural for octopus). This tradition goes back to a time when only eight games were needed to win Lord Stanley's Cup. The Wings won the Stanley Cup needing only those eight games. So their mascot was addopted to be the octipi. The Red Wings had won the Stanley Cup seven times from the start of the NHL until 1955. After 1955, the Wings would not be sucessful in recapturing the Cup until the late 90s.
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